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News Release:

May, 2006

The Wren Association of Toronto
PO Box 14 Station F Toronto ON M4Y 2L4

NEWS RELEASE

60^th Anniversary of the Wren Association of Toronto

This momentous occasion is being celebrated by the Association, on May 27, 2006 with a tea at the Royal York Hotel, 2-5 pm, for Wrens and their invited guests.

In 1946 those Ex Wrens in the Toronto area formed the Wren Association of Toronto and hosted the first national reunion in 1950. There is no National Association with headquarters and a staff as in Great Britain. Any location that has enough interested Ex Wrens may and do form their own association operating as they see fit. We co-operate  with each other and of course meet at our reunions.

In 1972 the Toronto Association headed a fund raising committee to raise money for a Wren statue to be erected in Galt Ontario (the location of our basic training ship, HMCS Conestoga.) This statue was unveiled at our 1972 reunion. The same year we formed an entertainment group “The Jenny Wren Revue” to perform on that occasion. Since then we have put on a show at most of the reunions including our final one. We also perform at Naval functions, at Legions and at other occasions.

The Toronto Association meets the third Monday of the month, September through June (excepting public holidays). We meet at the Naval Club of Toronto, 14 Hayden Street (Bloor and Yonge streets) at 12 noon. We have speakers, lunches, annual dinners, special occasion parties and hold one fund raising event in the spring. This supplies the monies for our charities.

The members also support the activities of the local and surrounding district Naval communities.

A newsletter is published 10 times a year and sent to our membership of 200 plus which extends to all parts of Canada, the US and the UK.

As a Naval Association we have elected to belong to the Royal Canadian Naval Association, which gives us access to National interest and news.

Membership is open to those women who served in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service, the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, the Sea Element of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Women’s Royal Naval Service, corresponding Women’s Naval Services, Women’s Naval Auxiliary Forces in any part of the British Empire or Commonwealth, the Royal Navy and Allied Naval Forces, including their Merchant Navies, who served in areas of conflict.